Pointed out in Mario Party, as they note that DK's pose during the Limbo minigame is somewhat suggestive of a different kind of donkey.

In Golf in Wii Sports, Chugga asks whether they can hit each others' balls.

During Fortune Street, Chugga says that, "Rocking his hand back and forth on the Wiimote gives his hand something to do."

In the Great Maze, Jon is playing as Charizard and tells Tim to "follow the angry dragon". Tim and Chugga tell him Urban Dictionary's definition of "angry dragon". note It involves fellatio.

And in Jon's Live Stream of Mario Party 6, Chugga asks, "Should we do Daisy on hard?" And during the Treasure Trawlers minigame, he says "And I get... wood." It actually took Jon and Tim a while to realize what Emile said (as in, Jon didn't know until he read it in the comments). Later on, Jon starts laughing, and Emile asks, "Is it about my wood?" But the worst one is when they play Crate and Peril with Daisy as the one player and Chugga says, "I'm inside Daisy's heart-shaped box." without knowing the slang for it.

During the last round between Tom Fawkes and JonTron in the the Smash Smash Bros for Wii U Invitational Tournament, Tim has this bit of commentary about the music.

In Mario Party 5, Chugga plays as Daisy, so this is everywhere. Most notable in Pirate Dream (Part 2):

Chugga: Donkey Kong! Come into my body and become me! I must have you as my playable character again!

Jon: ..So you want Donkey Kong to come into Daisy's body.

End of the Sonic Adventure finale, Chugga says to Jon: "I saw you reach down and I thought that's what you were grabbing!" He was referring to Jon's phone. Oddly enough, one of the few times Emile makes an innuendo and nobody, himself included, calls him out or cracks up.

Anti-Climax: In Dokapon Kingdom, Chugga gets a nitroglycerin (an item that randomly explodes if the person holding it is hit) early on and keeps holding onto it for over 2 years of real time. Eventually, Chugga gets a big bug, which eats the nitroglycerin, meaning that after all that time, it never went off!

Tim, to Jon, in Fortune Street's Delfino Plaza. They spend much of the board in a tense race for the win, but in the last few turns, Tim's net worth falls dramatically, and the tension vanishes as Jon easily marches toward victory.

On the last five turns of Boo's Haunted Bash in Mario Party 4, Tim ends up turning all Red Spaces into Chance Time Spaces. No one lands on any.

The video upload schedule introduced with New Super Mario Bros. U drags out series longer, due to Chugga reducing video length in exchange for more videos over the course of several days, compared to before when he would upload a series of videos (or one extremely long video) within a single day.

Mario Stadium from Fortune Street got backlash for this, as it was uploaded over the course of 8 parts, despite Yoshi's Island (which only had 6 parts) having close to the same total running time.

Robbin Hood Ruins from Fortune Street suffered heavily, both from being a long board to begin with and from the Guys playing more slowly and cautiously than necessary. It came out to over 2.5 hours, and was split into 10 parts and uploaded over a span of three weeks, leaving some viewers (and the Guys themselves) sick of it by the end.

Super Mario 3D World. Not only did it have more episodes than the average TRG co-op, but only two were uploaded per week instead of the usual three (the third slot was filled by Dokapon Kingdom, another long-runner). As a result, the LP lasted almost five months, agitating some fans who wanted to see something new. It didn't help that replays of levels were left uncut, unlike in previous projects where only important bits were kept in (such as Kirby's Return to Dream Land), and that video lengths were reduced to roughly 15 minutes on average, resulting in some episodes only featuring a single level. And it especially didn't help that the final level was split into three separate videos, which earned Chugga criticism.

Author's Saving Throw: After Super Mario 3D World drew criticisms over Arc Fatigue due to only having two videos a week, the following round of Fortune Street's Mario Circuit received daily uploads, resulting in what many considered much better pacing.

Chugga's gained a considerable hatedom, with many seeing him as an obnoxiousandannoying player who's way too loud and immature. Meanwhile, there's a considerable number of people who enjoy Chugga's contributions to the team, his somewhat edgier humor compared to his more family-friendly main channel, and his numerous Foot-in-Mouth moments. His brand of playing in the Mario Party playthroughs also leaves people on both sides, as he's the most competitive and most likely to use "dirty tricks" among the three. Depending on who you ask, he's either a Magnificent Bastard or a Manipulative Bastard.

Certain fans fail to realize that Jon being a dick is just playful banter and want him off the team. And there are some who get tired of him winning all the time. Meanwhile, many people see him as a genuinely witty member who brings a clever sense of humor to the show.

Some consider NCS unnecessary due to him being quiet and Out of Focus a lot, and some deride him for his poorer playing abilities or his love of Toilet Humor. Others see him as an entertaining member & a crucial source of sanity for the guys.

Diabetus caused this kind of reaction when it was rumoured that he would be one of the Guys' special guests, despite it not being stated that he would actually be a guest, just that they were meeting up with him. Eventually, it was confirmed that he wouldn't be joining the group, and they were talking about inviting him to play Battletoads with them because they didn't let him know they'd have a Battletoads challenge in Thrown Controllers and he was genuinely upset about it.

PKSparkxx from the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Invitationals Tournament. A lot of viewers consider him one of the "Stop Having Fun" Guys, in that he was too good at the game (when almost everyone else was just a casual player) and also came off too cocky; these viewers even begged the Guys not to invite him to any future tournaments. Others, however, cite that he's not really that good in comparison to actual tournament players, and while he did come off as confident, he also acted like a good sport to whoever he beat. This second group also argues that not inviting someone because they're good at the game is just childish.

One sprouted up between Team Jon (and Josh) vs. Team Chugga during NSMB Wii. It's more lighthearted than some examples, since Jon trying to kill Chugga was Played for Laughs by both Jon and Chugga.

Episode 10 of LittleBigPlanet. One side thought it was their funniest episode yet, while another found it extremely boring, and a third found it outright racist. The entire episode was designed as a Take That and parody of the more bizarre criticisms the playthrough had received (including having a female guest despite the name being "The Runaway Guys", the accents used and the tendency of the group to be very loud), but this does fall flat for some people.

Jon's continuous winning streak in Mario Party 4 caused quite a few people to quit watching the LP; the other half seemed to think he deserved it after the train wreck of bad luck Mario Party 3 brought him. It showed up again when the streak continued in Mario Party 5.

In the Dokapon Kingdom videos, fans either view Chugga becoming a Darkling as an interesting game changer or a frustrating thing that makes the videos hard to watch; it doesn't help that one of the first things he did was remove Tim's rare shield. There's also those who feel he isn't taking full advantage of the class to really change up the game and is just wasting it.

Oddly enough, the second time Tim becomes a Darkling is an even bigger waste of time, as he fails to take several towns that he could have taken in favor of landing on empty spaces and doing nothing. However, he also didn't deprive anyone of rare equipment, so that may explain the lack of vitriol. (The first time Tim becomes a Darkling, he uses Global Assault, resetting the game to a neutral state.

The Rayman Origins LP. Some say it's an overall good LP, and a nice break from the usual Mario games. Others say it's the worst series the Guys have ever done, with lackluster and unmemorable commentary. Others still remain mostly indifferent.

Shipping Chugga x Masae. Some fans think they would make an adorable couple due to a few ship-teasy moments during their Super Mario 3D World LP. Others find it invasive and disgusting that some are trying to ship two actual people who they don't really know.

On a related note, some people—even ones who ship them—find Chuggaa constantly calling Masae "adorable" to be creepy and awkward. Though it's mellowed out a bit since Masae has clarified that's just part of how they "pick on" each other, and she does let him know when he's being too annoying with it.

Daisy officially being Chugga's player character as of Mario Party 5 (since Donkey Kong is no longer available as a playable character). Some people love the fact Chugga is playing her due to all the Accidental Innuendo that occurred regarding the character, and think it'll be a great fit for more humor. Others feel like she's already turning into a Forced Meme and there really isn't much for Chugga to work with using her, and greatly prefer the idea of him switching to Toad, who they feel has much more opportunity for funny moments since Chugga is rather infamous for his spot-on Toad impressions.

Critical Research Failure: In one episode of Subspace Emissary, Chugga states that Kirby was originally going to be yellow, but his reasoning as to why they made him pink instead is because they thought it would be too similar to Pac-Man. In actuality, the development team was having trouble on whether they wanted Kirby to be pink or yellow (With Sakurai wanting him to be the former, and Miyamoto wanting him to be the latter). Also, there is no official source claiming that they dropped the yellow coloration due to resembling Pac-Man too much.

Chugga:*grabs Jon* RAPED! (later)Chugga:*gets grabbed by Wario* Wario, you just raped out what I raped out of [Jon]! (later)Chugga:*gets grabbed by Jon* Don't rape the monkey! Jon: What's with you and rape? Chugga: I don't know. *beat* It's fun? Jon:WHAT?!?

During the Bomberman Live tournament, Jon has to explain that killing both yourself and the other players doesn't count as a win. His exact wording? "Genocide along with killing yourself does not work. Genocide itself is okay."

During Mario Party 3, some fans became restless when Creepy Cavern was extended by a Wacky Watch, adding two more videos than usual. Even worse is that the board's final minigame was the very long and monotonous "The Beat Goes On."

Subverted by Mario Party 3's duel boards. Initially they did a two-parter for the first board and stated it would be done as filler between other projects, before getting back to it a month after the initial board and finishing them all relatively quickly.

Robbin Hood Ruins in Fortune Street took 10 parts and 2 hours and 37 minutes in real time to finally come to an end. This lead to a lot finger-pointing at who was responsible for picking the board.

Super Mario 3D World became this as a result of the final level, Champion's Road, taking three whole videos to complete. Even before then, things were noticeably starting to drag due to the conclusion to the main game occurring in Part 26, but the additional bonus worlds making up another 15 videos - a little over a third of the entire LP.

JoshJepson. Many were sad to see him gone after NSMB Wii, and the Guys eventually brought him back as a guest player for NSMB U. A few fans consider him the honorary fourth guy, and he even appears in some of the TRG fanart with the otherthreeguys. (Sadly, he doesn't return for Super Mario 3D World.)

Wario, for his line from the first two Mario Party games: "Doh I missed!" It's gotten to the point where he's referenced in every project even if he isn't in it.

Special guests in general are pretty well-liked, especially Jon Paula during the Mario Power Tennis tournament, due to being the most vocal of the guests and providing some pretty funny lines.

Fortune Street as a whole. When the Guys posted the first video, they showed concern over whether or not it would go over well, and expected it to be a Love It or Hate It one-off. Fans adored it, and it has become traditional between-series filler, especially as a way to see off a special guest (Lucahjin, JoshJepson, and Super Jeenius all played games with the Guys before going).

"Old Man" in Sonic Adventure. While playing the game the guys became fixated on a mannequin of an old man in front of a restaurant in the Station Square section and have attempted to carry him around every where they go. The fans have quickly taken to him and he's starting to become a favorite.

Stephen Plays is also very popular with fans. It helps that he's good friends with Chugga and isn't nearly as loud and obnoxious. Plus Mal's Deadpan Snarker comments made while playing was what made some interested in checking his channel out.

Daisy, for being shipped with Chugga. Her popularity surged during Jon's livestream of Mario Party 6 after Chugga made one too many innuendos about her. She was then chosen to be Chugga's playable character in Mario Party 5, just because of that livestream.

Hans the Arms Dealer. The guys and fans consider him very quotable and always look forward to seeing him and hearing his declarations of "havin' a sale".

All the death threats Jon and Josh gave to Emile are not fun to think back on after he got seriously ill and could have died. Jon even slightly mentions it on a stream expressing regret.

In episode 36 of Sonic Adventure, Chugga lampshades the fact that the guys are discussing Seaman on the day of narrator Leonard Nimoy's death (note that all TRG episodes are recorded months in advance). The day before the video was uploaded, Chugga announced that his cat Teddy passed away. It doesn't help that the discussion was occurring in one of Big the Cat 's levels.

Good Bad Bugs: In Episode 15 of NSMB Wii, Tim jumps on the flagpole, gets a 1-Up, then bubbles, and is suddenly not in the bubble. To add greatness, they got fireworks.

Growing the Beard: The Thrown Controllers panel at PAX East 2013 noticeably improved from the previous panels. The technical problems were minimal, and an official video of the panel was made by The Game Station, with professional equipment, multiple cameras, and decent editing.

Hypocritical Fandom: There are quite a few times where the fans will bash one of the Guys (normally Jon or Emile) for the moments where they are jerks or being too competitive but fail to mention that all of them do this.

A minor example during Mario Party 3, after NCS became the majority board winner. While editing the video, Chugga left a note stating that he was still leading in the detailed stats, so NCS hadn't officially won the LP yet. This received some harsh feedback in the comments, accusing Chugga of being a poor sport. note He eventually gave NCS the victory, and it's unknown if the backdraft had any influence on this decision.

Many fans feel that Dokapon Kingdom should have lasted longer. Notably, however, the guys did this intentionally, since they were partially testing the waters to see if the fans were interested in them playing the (much, much longer) full game. They have since returned to the game to play Story Mode.

Shorter playthroughs tend to be less memorable, though not necessarily worse. Castle Crashers and Wario Ware Inc.: Mega Party Game$ in particular don't have nearly as much to them as other playthroughs on the channel.

Lying Creator: Downplayed and discussed. In Mario Party 3, TRG brings up the issue of DK no longer being playable in Mario Party 5. They head into the mini game room and Chugga starts talking in Toad's voice. Jon says "Yes, its exactly what you think it means." implying Chugga will play as Toad in Mario Party 5. Chugga picks Daisy instead. When they play Future Dream where Toad is the A.I., Chugga says Toad was indeed going to be his new character but due to playing Mario Party 6 on Jon's channel and making several innuendos involving Daisy, Chugga changed his mind and decided to play as Daisy instead.

In Mario Party 3, Chugga manages to pull a small but brilliant gambit in the final turn of Woody Woods. He uses a Reverse Mushroom on himself and sees Boo. Not having coins to steal a Star, he steals Jon's coins instead, preventing Jon from using his Magic Lamp to get the Star. Chugga then chooses to take a path into a dead-end road, which reverses his direction and allows him to visit Boo again, this time with enough coins to steal a Star. And yet he still loses the board.

Jon during Koopa's Seaside Soirée in Mario Party 4. NCS sees Boo and has the option of stealing a Star from Jon, but (at Jon's encouragement) instead steals coins from Mario; this results in NCS eventually getting the Coin Star instead of Chugga, which allows Jon to win the board. Chugga even makes this accusation himself, though Jon plays innocent. However, the trope is subverted when NCS admits he kinda wanted Jon to win and knew stealing coins would help make that happen. Jon drops the act at this point.

In the last board of Mario Party 4, Chugga is determined to prevent Jon from sweeping the game. His method is weaponizing his already ridiculous luck to inhuman degrees. First he intentionally lands on chance time and manages to swap coins with Jon, stealing the coin lead and later steals the Lucky Bonus Star by landing on three Happening Spaces in a row! He succeeds in winning the board.

Averted with CaptainFalcon, a realistically flawed individual who is still capable of moments of badass.

Carver is treated like this during Fortune Street (Mt. Magmageddon), even having Chuck Norris Facts-style claims like he makes toast just by glaring at bread. He also reminds fans of Jorgen Von Strangle because of Chuggaa's scrambling the fairies reference.

"I thought Chugga was still sick." note During the release of the Rayman Origins LP, Chugga came down with a near-fatal respiratory disease that put his then-current solo project on hold for several months. However, since Origins videos were still being uploaded, fans continually asked whether Chugga was still sick, despite being told MULTIPLE times (and it having been established as being this way since the beginning) that the TRG videos are recorded months in advance. It reached the point where other fans started making fun of it — and then people thought those fans were being serious like the others.

The Metropolitan Mutant of Ark. note Happened during another round; the actual answer was "The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The kicker? The part Emile got right was "The Metropolitan", and he didn't even know what "Metropolitan" meant.

Chugga skipped a minigame explanation in Mario Party 3 exactly once, by accident, and apologized for it almost immediately when Jon lost the minigame in question because he was unfamiliar with it. The way some people go about it, you'd think that he skipped every single explanation in a deliberate attempt to screw Jon over.

Chugga's absolutely abysmal performance in Part 1 of Sonic Adventure will never be forgotten. For some fans, it's done enough damage to name him as the worst player of the trio—a title previously given to Tim.

Chugga's terrible performance in Part 1 of Super Mario Bros. 3 which saw him get killed 5 times total, including twice on World 1-1, hasn't helped with this. It got to the point where several comments on the video compared it to how well Elliot of the Super Gaming Bros. fared when he played the same game.

Seasonal Rot: The channel arguably had a bad drop near the end of 2013. Castle Crashers was a decent, if short, playthrough, but it was followed with Mario Party 3, which had many divisive moments. After that was, out of nowhere, Wario Ware Inc.: Mega Party Game$; it had a decent reception, but felt more like filler despite being labeled as a main project, and it had barely anything memorable in it. Then came the Bomberman Live Battlefest tournament, which had similar problems and was similarly out of nowhere, and to date is among the least viewed content on the channel, let alone just the tournaments. New Super Luigi U was the final part of this, as while it is fondly remembered by fans, it is infamous for having the most frustrated Jon yet and felt like a slight letdown by being the first New Super Mario game without a fourth player. Afterwards, Mario Party 4 pulled the channel the rest of the way out of the rot after Luigi U already helped.

Shipping: In addition to Protonconroy. Several pairs have spawned due to jokes, or the guys shipping them In-Universe.

In Mario Party 2, we have Chugga and Jon ship each other with other characters, like Chugga with Jynx and Jon with Wario.

NCS with himself in Subspace Emissary.

Bowser and Waluigi in Mario Party 3. Mainly because Jon as Waluigi kept getting the Bowser space.

Chugga with Daisy, after a few innuendos about her during Jon's Mario Party 6 stream.

Spell My Name with an "S": Some misspell Chugga as Chuggaa despite him always shortening it to the former himself. Some also call Jon, John.

Squick: In Episode 41 of Dokapon Kingdom, Chugga mentions that when he was 14 years old, a dragonfly flew right into his eye and stung his eyeball.

Star Trek Movie Curse: Both Jon and NCS seem to have this issue performance wise in the Mario Party games. Jon has much better luck playing the even-numbered games, winning the majority of the boards in both Mario Party 2 and 4, while the odd-numbered games give him terrible luck, often losing coins, stars, the chances to get stars, and minigames, and his wins are fewer. Jon even brings this up when the three start playing Mario Party 5. NCS meanwhile has it the other way around: his luck is horrible during the even numbered games, winning no boards in the 2nd or 4th games, while he fares better on the odd-numbered titles. He managed to get a surprising win in Wario's Battle Canyon for Mario Party 1, end up the majority winner for Mario Party 3, and win a board before either Chugga or Jon during Mario Party 5. As of Mario Party 5, the curse for Jon may be broken. While he does get bad luck throughout the playthrough (e.g. getting low rolls, getting sent back to the left section of the board in Future Dream by landing on the rockets) he managed to win five boards in a row, which means he won the majority of the boards in Mario Party 5. It's now been theorized that the GameCube works out for him.

Level 9-6, Fire Bar Sprint in New Super Luigi U, has the most deaths of the whole project, as well as being the level where Jon rages the most.

"Champions Road" in Super Mario 3D World. The level is so tough that the four only get a few screens before dying at the same obstacle, and they spend three videos trying to get through it.

"Village of the Blue Maiden" from Four Sword Adventures. Thanks to the way the game was designed, it took them ages to get past the second screen (they did not realise that only one person was able to perform the sequence of events needed to progress). This was followed by a level that had a lot of backtracking and fetch quests.

Uncanny Valley: Referenced in the Wheel of Fortune videos towards the awkward character designs and animations.

Values Dissonance: Moreso between the Guys and the viewers; Jon has once stated that statistically, the amount of fun they have in a game is inverselt proportional to a series' viewership, since many watch them just to see them bicker and suffer. He cites Rayman Origins as the prime example, since they had great fun with it, but it's among their least popular series.

Jon is probably the most susceptible to this; examples include in New Super Mario Bros. Wii where he fails to give Chugga a game over and again for him and Josh as they fail to bring down Emile in Mario Stadium in Fortune Street, both complaining about his ludicrous luck. And then there's Mario Party 3: whilst the game did screw him over a lot (see The Woobie below), he did excessively whine about how Mario Party "hates him", despite having good fortune in previous Mario Party games. This eventually looped around to being Justified, since he revealed in a livestream that his long-time girlfriend dumped him right before Mario Party 3 started, causing him to take his frustration out on the game.

Chugga also has his wangsty moments. Most notable is in The Observatory in Fortune Street. Apparently because he kept doing badly despite playing the game regularly, while both NCS and Lucah were novices but kept doing better than him. Meanwhile, in the final video for Koopa's Seaside Soirée in Mario Party 4, he literally spends almost the entirety of the video complaining about Tim taking the coin lead from him and ensuring Jon's victory. He doesn't even make any of his usual jokes or references, just going on about "freaking Jon" the whole time. Granted, losing sucks, but it is a competition.

Tim in general with his overall crummy luck. Most notable was in Pirate Land in Mario Party 2, when a star appeared just in front of him. This star would get him out of last place, especially since he had over 100 coins and had two turns to move to the star 5 spaces ahead of him — he didn't make it. In addition, Mario Party 4 just kept screwing him over. With Jon getting lucky, including two hidden stars on one board and a ridiculous number of Boos, Tim is just ridiculously unlucky. Another board had him poised to win only for some last-second bad luck in the very last turn to screw him over. To make matters worse, a comment on part 6 of the Rayman Origins LP has someone noticing that Tim seems to be getting bubblized very frequently and at easily avoidable times, at which point Tim reveals that for about six month's prior to the video's release, he's been suffering from Sleep Apnea, causing him to black out randomly if he doesn't get around 10 or so hours of sleep. Since he almost never complains about his misfortunes, though, he qualifies as an Iron Woobie.

Jon in Mario Party 3. Mario Party has screwed him over before, but NEVER that badly. It gets to the point where you legitimately feel sorry for him.note Granted, he was also going through a rough patch since his girlfriend broke up with him right before they started recording. And it gets worse in Super Luigi U with his constant rage, though he anticipates it being construed as Wangst. It was revealed in Jon's streams that at the time, he had broken up with his girlfriend around the time of Mario Party 3's recording, which explains a lot.

Chugga in Wheel of Fortune. Since he's not that good at word puzzles, the constant bad guesses he makes leading to him getting repeatedly humiliated eventually makes it pretty easy to feel bad for him. Taken Up to Eleven in Jon's May 2016 livestream of Mario Party 10 where just about nothing went his way. He got so frustrated and upset that #HugsForChuggs and variations thereof started flying around Twitch chat because the game was just that cruel to him.

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